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William J. Willis

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William J. Willis
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According to Wikipedia, William J. Willis was an American experimental particle physicistist. Biography William Willis studied physics at Yale University, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1954 and his PhD in 1958 with advisor Earle Fowler and dissertation related to the development of hydrogen bubble chambers in Ralph P. Shutt's research group. Willis was a postdoc at Brookhaven National Laboratory , where he observed weak decays of kaons and hyperons in bubble chambers. In 1961/62 he was at CERN, where he was involved in experiments on weak decays of hyperons, which confirmed the Cabibbo theory of weak interaction. In 1964 Willis joined the faculty of Yale University. From 1973 to 1991, he was at CERN, where he undertook experiments at the ISR, developing novel detector concepts. He was essential for the development of the ISR's Axial Field Spectrometer, which detected the first high-pt jet events in hadronic collisions. The approach used in the Axial Field Spectrometer became standard for hadron colliders.

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